Scher v. Commissioner

2 B.T.A. 991, 1925 BTA LEXIS 2200

• Court: United States Board of Tax Appeals
• Decided: October 26, 1925
• Docket: Docket No. 3492.
• Status: Published

Opinion

This is an appeal from the determination of deficiencies in income tax for the calendar years 1919, 1920, and 1921, in the amounts, respectively, of $562.20, $178.40, and $92, arising from the disallowance by the Commissioner of deductions for alleged entertaining expenses in the amounts of $3,200 for the year 1919, $2,500 for the year 1920, and $1,800 for the year 1921. No credible evidence was introduced to prove that these expenditures were actually made for the purposes alleged.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

The taxpayer is a resident of New York City and an officer of the Manhattan Paper Co., Inc.

During a portion of each of the years involved he traveled for the corporation, paying his own expenses without reimbursement. In his income-tax returns he deducted, as alleged expenses of entertaining customers, $3,200 for the year 1919, $2,500 for the year 1920, and $1,800 for the year 1921.

DECISION.

The determination of the Commissioner is approved.